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In Muslim Turkey,
A Minister's Quest:
Starting a Church

Religious Restrictions Begin
To Ease as Nation Seeks
Entry in European Union

By

Hugh Pope Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Updated Nov. 26, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

ANTALYA, Turkey -- Strolling through the jasmine-scented alleys of this Mediterranean port city in 1997, Rev. James Bultema stumbled on an abandoned stone chapel. Instantly, he envisioned it restored and reconsecrated. Here was the home he was seeking for his budding congregation.

"I walked in, stood there and imagined how beautiful it could be," says the Presbyterian pastor from Muskegon, Mich.